debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2572

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2572

Today's Topics:

  Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)  [ Jeff  ]
  Re: (etch) Using aptitude after usin  [ Tobias Nissen  ]
  Re: Nagios For Debian                 [ Andy Smith  ]
  Re: SNMP Issues on Debian Etch        [ Andy Smith  ]
  Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)  [ Davide Mancusi  ]
  Re: (etch) Using aptitude after usin  [ "Mumia W.."  ]
  Re: Installation Problem              [ Marcello Barreto de Medeiros  ]
  Re: HELP! can't become root           [ tom arnall  ]
  Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)  [ Jeff  ]
  can ping only with sudo               [ tom arnall  ]
  Re: can ping only with sudo           [ Andy Smith  ]
  Re: can ping only with sudo           [ Jeff D  ]
  Re: How to set iceweasel as the appl  [ Bernd Zeimetz  ]
  urgent help needed to config USB mou  [ Serena Cantor  ]

  Re: The effectiveness of 'make unins [ "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern ]   The effectiveness of 'make uninstall [ Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.e ]

Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:01:43 +1300
From: Jeff <professorwagstaff@gmail.com> To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:43:05 +1300, Jeff wrote:
>

>> Jeff wrote:
>>     
>>> Shams Fantar wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Jeff wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) 
>>>>> or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck 
>>>>> AC97  now running Lenny but had the same problem in Etch.  Wonder if i 
>>>>> have left something out?  Any suggestions welcome.
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>>>>> Jeff
>>>>>           
>>>> Try : alsaconf
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> That worked.!
>>> Many thanks Jeff
>>>
>>> It was short lived because when i logged out and in again The browser 
>>> sound stopped woking?
>>>       
>

> Then there is probably some other application blocking the sound device.
> Running alsaconf temporarily unloads all sound modules and thus kills
> all applications which hang on to sound devices. This would explain why
> your browser could then play sound.

>

> Since this blocking process seems to be restarted at every login, I
> would guess that it is a sound daemon (esd for Gnome, artsd for KDE).
> Please tell us how you login (gdm?), which DE/window manager you use
> (Gnome?), which sound daemon is running, and, for that matter, which
> browser we are talking about (I assume it is Mozilla/Iceape, but which
> version?).

>

> Normally the Iceape/Iceweasel startup script should check if a sound
> daemon is running and should automatically use an existing daemon to
> play sound. We have to figure out why this does not work for you.

>

> If you are not running any sound daemons then it might be necessary to
> load the OSS legacy support modules so that the browser can use those
> devices directly. (It seems that alsaconf does not automatically load
> the OSS modules anymore with some soundcards. Chris Lale has collected
> some information on this on NewbieDOC[1].)

>

> [1] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux
>
>

I have esound installed as well as alsaplayer-daemon. Window manager is GDM and Iceweasel 2.0.0.6-0etch1+leni browser . Wonder if esound is the culprit?

Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:19:33 +0200
From: Tobias Nissen <tn@movb.de>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Hi Martin!

Martin Waller wrote:
> Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
> having used dselect up to now?

Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.

For a comparison, see Joey Hess' article about aptitude vs. dselect[0].

HTH,
Tobias

[0]
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/msg/ef229f2835c06b4b

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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:53:44 +0000
From: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nagios For Debian
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Hi,

Firstly please do not hijack other threads. If you want to start a new thread, do it as a new email.

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:17:02AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote:
> Is anyone else using Nagios on Debian Etch?

I am.

> I've got it set up for monitoring Linux and Windows servers, but
> the check_snmp plugin won't compile. The Nagios FAQ says it must
> be missing SNMP packages, but Synaptic reports they're all
> installed.

You don't need to compile anything. The check_snmp plugin works fine straight out of the nagios-standard-plugins package.

> Checking the list of Nagios Plugins for the Debian install, I don't even
> see check_snmp listed any more. I have MRTG up and running on the same
> box, so I know at least the SNMP packages needed for MRTG are there.

$ dpkg -L nagios-plugins-standard | grep snmp /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp
/usr/share/nagios-plugins/templates-standard/snmp.cfg

If you're having problems with it then I suggest running it by hand =66rom the command line to see what is going on. "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp --help" will give you some usage hints.

Cheers,
Andy

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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:55:27 +0000
From: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SNMP Issues on Debian Etch
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Hi,

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:22:35AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote:
> When I try to run the snmpwalk command, I'm told it doesn't exist.
> Has this been taken out of Debian Etch or is it in some other
> package?

$ apt-file search bin/snmpwalk
snmp: usr/bin/snmpwalk

Cheers,
Andy

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Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:51:47 +0200
From: Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>
To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

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Jeff ha scritto:

>> If you are not running any sound daemons then it might be necessary to
>> load the OSS legacy support modules so that the browser can use those
>> devices directly. (It seems that alsaconf does not automatically load
>> the OSS modules anymore with some soundcards. Chris Lale has collected
>> some information on this on NewbieDOC[1].)
>>
>> [1] 
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux
>>
>>   

> I have esound installed as well as alsaplayer-daemon. Window manager is
> GDM and Iceweasel 2.0.0.6-0etch1+leni browser . Wonder if esound is the
> culprit?

Hi Jeff,

Try
$ ICEWEASEL_DSP="esddsp" iceweasel
This will wrap the firefox-bin executable with esddsp (man esddsp). If it works, you might want to consider changing the setting in /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc.

HTH,
Davide

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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:07:43 -0500 From: "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> To: Martin Waller <martinej.waller@ntlworld.com> Cc: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues? Message-ID: <4708234F.3030205@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/06/2007 11:24 AM, M=C3=A1rcio H. Parreiras wrote:
> On 10/6/07, Martin Waller <martinej.waller@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Hello, >> >> Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after=20 >> having used dselect up to now? >> >> Thnaks, >> >> Martin >>
> Sure, aptitude is a better tool than dselect.
>=20 That's true, but that wasn't what he asked. Martin wanted to know if it=20 is safe to use aptitude after having used dselect up to now, and the=20 answer is "no"--unless certain steps are taken in aptitude. I think those steps are to find out what aptitude wants to uninstall=20 automatically and to perform "unmarkauto" on those packages. Aptitude's interactive interface is very useful for this. Martin would=20 want to get aptitude to the point where it does not want install or=20 uninstall anything automatically. After aptitude is satisfied with the=20 current system, it's probably safe to start using aptitude regularly.

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:14:44 -0400 From: Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: lots of invalid email trying to come in Message-ID: <20071007001444.GA23783@niof.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Suddenly I'm getting lots of email to someuser@mywebsite.info where 'someuser' can be most anything. They're coming from different ips, some of which have no host name. ('mywebsite' is not the real name.) What's going on? How can I stop it? Here's some lines from my logfile: 2007-10-06 20:10:32 H=smtprelay2.dsi.net [217.18.184.226] F=<> rejected RCPT <kaelinsjpck@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:10:37 H=mail2.vw-cdp.nl [145.7.1.72] F=<> rejected RCPT <Sideshwq@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:10:38 H=smtpgate.kreis-unna.de [212.37.49.69] F=<> rejected RCPT <Youvady_Sugiura@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:10:42 H=fjalar.isp.9tel.net [212.30.113.170] F=<> rejected RCPT <Raimo-diver@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:10:52 H=1039-1.1st-housing.de [62.112.158.89] F=<> rejected RCPT <jeffory@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:10:52 H=1039-1.1st-housing.de [62.112.158.89] F=<> rejected RCPT <Kresnae297@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:10:53 H=skd03ns1.pzd-kdn.de [62.225.177.8] F=<> rejected RCPT <shirleeQuinlan@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:11:20 H=smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.26] F=<verweij@etrade.nl> rejected RCPT <Latter@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:11:26 H=host83-50.discord.birch.net (fwbloom.blex.com) [65.16.83.50] F=<> rejected RCPT <permisa@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address 2007-10-06 20:11:40 H=(mail.diaryclub.com) [203.153.164.200] F=<> rejected RCPT <Storm@mywebsite.info>: Unrouteable address -- "Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life." -- Oscar Wilde Rick Pasotto rick(at)niof.net http://www.niof.net

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:15:27 -0300 From: Marcello Barreto de Medeiros <marcellobm@gmail.com> To: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem Message-ID: <20071006211527.13cb8329@coxinha> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Frank, hello Amit, i think the better way is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, and modify, if necessary, because you have to use the newest packages from updated mirrors. On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:28:27 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:07:14 +0000
> "frank asabere" <lovincee222@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Good day sir
> > Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, postgresql, php4
> > libapache-mod-perl.
> > since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds .
> > Please help me out
> >
>
> just do the following:
>
> sudo apt-get install apache postgresql php4 libapache-mod-perl
>
> That's the beauty and simplicity of debian in one line for you.
>
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:46:58 -0700 From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: can ping only with sudo Message-ID: <359a3c580710061746m64b9e3c3w5d2f552f7b0c3c95@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/6/07, tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of
> course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get:
>
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
Something is odd indeed. I attempted to run an strace (sometimes those can be useful to see what devices and files it is trying to read - look at access() and open() functions in particular) but I get the same error as you if I try to do an strace on ping. Otherwise, ping runs normally.

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:36:19 -0700 From: tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HELP! can't become root Message-Id: <200710061736.20338.kloro2006@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 06 October 2007 11:58, Thilo Six wrote:
> David Fox wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:52
>
> <<-snip->>
>
> > Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root
> > partition and do a chroot into there, do whatever needed to clean up.
>
> You mean something like checking each and every directory=B4s and file=B4=
s
> permission compare them with what they should be change them accordingl=
y
> and proceed?
>
> Yap should work.
> but how do i find out what the perm's should be?

Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:34:59 +1300 From: Jeff <professorwagstaff@gmail.com> To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved) Message-ID: <470829B3.10102@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Davide Mancusi wrote:
> Jeff ha scritto:
>>> If you are not running any sound daemons then it might be necessary to >>> load the OSS legacy support modules so that the browser can use those >>> devices directly. (It seems that alsaconf does not automatically load >>> the OSS modules anymore with some soundcards. Chris Lale has collected >>> some information on this on NewbieDOC[1].) >>> >>> [1] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux >>> >>> >> I have esound installed as well as alsaplayer-daemon. Window manager >> is GDM and Iceweasel 2.0.0.6-0etch1+leni browser . Wonder if esound >> is the culprit? >
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Try
> $ ICEWEASEL_DSP="esddsp" iceweasel
> This will wrap the firefox-bin executable with esddsp (man esddsp). If
> it works, you might want to consider changing the setting in
> /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc.
>
> HTH,
> Davide
> Sadly this did not work. Thanks jeff

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:40:31 -0700 From: tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can ping only with sudo Message-Id: <200710061740.31473.kloro2006@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted could the two things be connected? thanks, tom arnall

Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:00:09 +0000 From: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can ping only with sudo Message-ID: <20071007010009.GZ18805@bitfolk.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q4T1iXni/LViaTyU" Content-Disposition: inline --Q4T1iXni/LViaTyU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi David, On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:46:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On 10/6/07, tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> > lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of
> > course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else =
i get:
> >
> > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
>=20
> Something is odd indeed.
>=20
> I attempted to run an strace (sometimes those can be useful to see
> what devices and files it is trying to read - look at access() and
> open() functions in particular) but I get the same error as you if I
> try to do an strace on ping. Otherwise, ping runs normally.
I believe this is because it won't run setuid under strace. As Tom says in the other reply, the OP's problem is most likely that /bin/ping has lost its setuid bit. Cheers, Andy --=20 http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB --Q4T1iXni/LViaTyU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHCC+ZIJm2TL8VSQsRAuZWAKCKc4fpQ0+z8OA/2u11be2Zir+x3wCgvkrU xauXsh8IPilDbZe821w+Vlg= =FtA8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q4T1iXni/LViaTyU--

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:48:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: can ping only with sudo Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710061747190.31507@proto.technobounce.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, tom arnall wrote:
> lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of
> course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get:
>
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
>
> could the two things be connected?
>
> thanks,
>
> tom arnall
> ping usually needs root permissions to run as a normal user, chmod 4755 /bin/ping should fix it -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.

Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:47:28 +0200 From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> To: Michael Yang <michael.yxf@gmail.com> Cc: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove? Message-ID: <47082CA0.7010704@bzed.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,
> Yes, I have set the iceweasel as the default x-www-browser, it works
> fine when I click hyper links within the other applications except
> icedove. So I'm wondering if there is any option in icedove to be set
> explicitly to point to iceweasel which opens the hyper links when user
> click it. It now gives me no response when I click one http links in
> icedove.
I'm not sure why and I didn't have the time to investigate this, but using strace I figures out that my icedove tries to start gnome-www-browser, so I've linked that to iceweasel. Probably a feature I don't have because I'm using KDE... Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <bernd(at)bzed.de> <http://bzed.de/>

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:29:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge Message-ID: <442346.46310.qm@web35701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have used "modprobe usbmouse" command, it seems OK Then how should I change XF86Config-4? Namely Mouse Device and Mouse Prot= ocol? For PS mouse, they are /dev/psaux and PS/2 protocol. After that, Am i all set? ___________________________________________________________________= _________________ Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get listin= gs, and more! http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/3658=20

Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:57:37 -0400 From: KS <lists04@fastmail.fm> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge Message-ID: <47084B21.8050402@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Serena Cantor wrote:
> I have used "modprobe usbmouse" command, it seems OK
>
> Then how should I change XF86Config-4? Namely Mouse Device and Mouse Protocol? For PS mouse, they
> are /dev/psaux and PS/2 protocol.
>
> After that, Am i all set?
>
My xorg.conf has the following (USB mouse connected to PS/2 port): Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EndSection and lsmod says that I have the module psmouse loaded. /KS

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:32:13 -0600 From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> Subject: Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command Message-Id: <200710062132.20287.wjl@icecavern.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2283357.MddDJtnz55"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart2283357.MddDJtnz55 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 06 October 2007 21:18:29 Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for
> testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running
> the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the
> respective application. I was curious as to how effective this command
> was. It seems like it removes everything it installs.
>
> Now this brings up the obvious question of the usefulness of the
> checkinstall software for managing installations outside of debian repos.
> I understand checkinstall is probably usefull for computers in a lab
> setup but for personal workstation, 'make install' and 'make uninstall'
> seems to be sufficient.
>
> Any comments?
make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. If you want= =20 something similiar, but generally has much less trouble, you might want to= =20 look at stow (debian package: stow, upstream url:=20 http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) =2D-=20 Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 --nextPart2283357.MddDJtnz55 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHCFNE8KmKTEzW49IRApnHAJwJceK8UDMoZsa3wd8iYaDO5p47KACfWJGs Gabpe0GEdwx/GyAznbR23aA= =AE1p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2283357.MddDJtnz55--

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:18:29 -0700 From: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command Message-Id: <20071006201829.f987209e.atu13439@csun.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective application. I was curious as to how effective this command was. It seems like it removes everything it installs. Now this brings up the obvious question of the usefulness of the checkinstall software for managing installations outside of debian repos. I understand checkinstall is probably usefull for computers in a lab setup but for personal workstation, 'make install' and 'make uninstall' seems to be sufficient. Any comments? -- Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2572 ************************************************** Received on Sat Oct 6 23:49:38 2007